The popularity of the book naturally led to the promotion of Pinyin and Punctuation, and the first volume of Mathematics also allowed many people who bought the book to learn about Lee's (Arabic) numerals.

In fact, Li Ming is also a fake public and private, the "Punctuation" and "Pinyin", together with the "Mathematics" printed a batch, sent to the government offices of each county under its jurisdiction, and ordered officials at all levels to study, starting next year (AD 192), must be able to read Pinyin, the text must use punctuation, and at the same time the bookkeeping should also introduce Li's numerals.

Lee's digital numbers have been popularized in Huiji County in recent years, and there is also double-entry bookkeeping. This great exchange naturally popularized the Li numerals and double-entry accounting method for Wu County and Yuzhang County.

Punctuation is used in the text, this is something that Li Ming must popularize, and in the final analysis, he is still disappointed with the people below.

I haven't seen so much power in government affairs, but the documents sent up are a lot of nonsense, and there are a lot of language traps when you look closely, and the wrong sentence reading judgment may be misunderstood into other meanings. However, there is no punctuation marks in these years, and how to divide sentence readings can only rely on personal understanding, so even if it is an article, ten people may have ten different interpretations.

For example, the "Spring and Autumn Classic", according to the needs and understanding, derived the "Spring and Autumn Zuochuan", "Ram Spring and Autumn", "Lü's Spring and Autumn" and "Guliang Spring and Autumn...... No wonder Guan Yu likes to hold this spring and autumn season, I'm afraid that every time I read it, I have a different understanding!

"I'm not going to give you a chance to quibble!" When Li Ming promoted the punctuation marks, he said in front of the civil and military officials. If there is doubt, let it be qualified, and express what it means. Wanting to continue to play the word game of sentence reading, Li Ming was too lazy to waste time in this regard.

In November, the book printing workshop was completely exposed to the family, and a large number of purchases and shipments were made, if there was no way to find out clearly, then these families would not be able to pass on to the present.

At the beginning, Xinhua Bookstore sold books at a low price, and many families first got the news that the boss behind this bookstore was Li Ming. Seeing that the quality of the books was so good, but the price was so low, they all thought that Li Ming was losing money and making money.

However, after more than a month, we only saw a large number of books on sale, and the key price was still so low, the biggest difference was that after the event period, only by buying more than one consistent book, could you enjoy a nine-percent discount.

The discount of the bookstore is not worth mentioning to the family, what really makes them emotional is Li Ming's act of breaking the cultural monopoly, which is almost destroying the foundation of the family.

The Maison's influence lies in their ability to control and guide public opinion, and this foundation is the monopoly of culture. Illiterate people will always subconsciously follow the guidance of cultural people, especially famous Confucians or celebrities. But if the people themselves are literate and can think for themselves, then how can they control this group of untouchables?

"The situation is already known!" The Gu family and the Lu family, and even the heads of large and small families such as the Wei family, gathered together under the pretext of drinking and feasting, and the contemporary head of the Gu family, that is, Gu Yong's father, took the lead in speaking, "Li Ming improved the papermaking technology, reduced the cost to the limit, and used engraving printing to publish a large number of books......

After speaking, he picked up a book of Analects and continued: "Generally speaking, in the past, such a book and such a quality could not be sold without 300 texts, otherwise it would definitely lose money. Now the cost is only 50 wen, and the selling price in the bookstore is 100 wen, which is more than double the profit, and the key is to make those untouchables grateful. ”

"I thought it was a loss to make money, and the price would eventually rise, but it was put on the table!" The head of the Wei family was immediately annoyed.

"Actually, have you ever thought that this is also a good way to make a fortune!" Lu Jun, the elder of the Lu family, spoke, Lu Kang was not there, and he was in charge at home, "It's all your own people, there's no need to hide it, I don't believe that you didn't buy a lot of these books, and you plan to make a fortune when the price rises." ”

When everyone heard this, they immediately bowed their heads, they did have this idea, so they bought a lot of books and went back. Xinhua bookstores did not intervene, anyway, they sold as much as they wanted, and as a result, a lot of books were stored in several warehouses.

"At present, only in Yangzhou, the price of these books is so cheap, but when I go out, I can sell such a book for 200 yuan, and someone will thank me!" Lu Jun picked up the "Analects" in front of everyone and said.

"It's just that this will also be hated by the local family, right?" Zhu Zhun frowned.

"As long as we sell in the name of the Guild Auditor's Chamber of Commerce, then even if we are hated, it is only a matter of Lord Taishou. That's it, buy and sell, double the profit! Lu Jun gestured two fingers.

"What if we have money, continue to let the printing workshop sell books endlessly, we have earned the present, and the loss will be the future!" The head of the Wei family sarcastically said that breaking the monopoly on knowledge is the most intolerable than insignificant profits.

"So what do we do as you see it? Prohibition of continuing to print books for sale? Lu Jun asked directly.

"Compete with the people! Because of his bookstore, there are already two bookstores where the books can't be sold, and it's not far from closing. As long as the paper improvement technology and printing technology are not popularized, then the entire Chinese bookstore will be closed. Not only us, but other families in other places will definitely not allow Li Ming to monopolize printing technology exclusively! Those poor families will not allow it, they usually rely on copying books to make a living, and now they are also facing unemployment! "The head of the Wei family quickly found the key.

"I didn't call you here to target Taishou!" The head of the Gu family shook his head, and then looked at Lu Jun, "Don't expect to be able to transport books to other places for sale, Taishou has already unconditionally shared the papermaking technology and printing technology with the Chen family, the Xun family and the Wang family, and of course, our Gu family, the corresponding workshops will soon be established in Wu County, Taiyuan County, Xiapi County and Yingchuan County, and start selling to the surrounding areas." The Gu family head said slowly.

"You're going to warn us?" Lu Jun raised his eyebrows, thinking that this banquet was intended to deal with Li Ming for the problem of printing, but he didn't expect that the Gu family had already betrayed the Wu Jun family.

"I'm just clarifying the facts, in less than a month, all the people who can afford books in the four counties of Jiangdong have already bought books. What they need is to find an opportunity to digest these books. At this point, no matter what we do, there is no point......" said the head of the Gu family.

In fact, his heart was not so calm, especially when Li Ming sent someone to bring him over and showed him all the process of his secret investigation of the bookstore these days, he was indeed very panicked at that time.

"Taishou said......" The head of the Gu family sighed, "Books have been popularized, I hope everyone will not embarrass him for the sake of their past feelings." Improved papermaking, he can take it out and share it with a few of us, it's more valuable than printing. In addition, he told me very politely that whoever dares to mistreat at this time, he doesn't mind giving Thunder Fury, it's no joke. ”

"What's going on lately?" Lu Jun is not stupid, he knows that something has happened.

"I also just learned that Chen Wen, the assassin of Yangzhou, seems to have died of a violent illness a few days ago. Later, the general Yuan Shu took the opportunity to enter Jiujiang County, and appointed Liu Xun as the assassin of Yangzhou, and eyed Lujiang County and even Jiangdong......"

When everyone heard this, they immediately understood that the war was about to break out, and Li Ming would indeed not allow it, and there would be any internal problems during this time.

At the family banquet held by Gu's family, the guests finally returned happy. They couldn't wait, got in touch with the workshop through the Gu family, and then allocated the shares, and found a good place to start making paper, as long as this thing is made, then there is no worry.

Lu Jun didn't leave in a hurry, and stayed directly in the hall to the end. Seeing that everyone had left, the head of the Gu family returned to the hall with a wry smile and looked at Lu Jun helplessly.

"Brother Lu, is there anything else?" Seeing that Lu Jun was slow to speak, the head of the Gu family could only take the initiative to ask.

"Don't play with me, the benefits you get from Li Ming are definitely much more than technology, it's not good to eat alone!" Lu Jun looked at the head of the Gu family with an expression of 'I have seen through you a long time ago'.

"I really can't hide it from Brother Lu!" The head of the Gu family sat down, "My son Gu Yong was appointed as the magistrate of Yongkang County, and my lord promised that in the next period of time, resources will be appropriately tilted towards Yongkang to accumulate political capital for my son." In addition, I also said that since books have been popularized, there will be more and more literate people in the future, and there will naturally be a new evaluation standard for the scholars, and the adults promise that they will appropriately relax the policy for the family......"

"Also, Brother Ling Gu Yan was the first to have a relationship with Xun Biao, and Cai Yong is the intermediary, no wonder the Gu family can be taken seriously...... Since you can talk to an adult, how about introducing me to a pair of women? They are the daughters of Lujiang Qiaogong, and they are also quite famous in Jiangdong......"

"What you said, but Jiangdong Erqiao? It's just that as far as I know, my sister Qiao Yu is only twelve years old, and adults advocate getting married at the age of eighteen. The head of the Gu family immediately guessed the Lu family's thoughts.

Having said that, when Peng Ji became the concubine of an adult, she was only twelve years old, so it can be seen that advocacy is only advocacy. The Lu family and Qiao Gong have a bit of an old relationship, if the second daughter can become the adult's concubine, then the Lu family will not forget Brother Gu's help in the future! Lu Jun arched his hand and said.

The Zhang family has been excluded, and the Zhu family is only taking the military attache route, so the Jiangdong officialdom, the Gu family and the Lu family are all competing for each other, at least they can't let the Yu family specialize in the front. The Gu family also has Cai Yong's road, and the Lu family naturally plans to make some articles.

"I heard that Qiao Yu is innocent, lively and cute, you might as well let her have more contact with Peng Ji......" Gu Shi didn't answer, just muttered a few words as if talking to himself.

"Thank you Brother Gu for mentioning it!" Lu Jun bowed his hand and got up to leave.